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Kevin R. Anderson; Clifford M. Stover

47 Teaching Machine Design Using HILTI Machine Tools Industry/University Collaborative Project Kevin R. Anderson, Clifford M. Stover, Polytechnic University, Pomona, CAAbstractThis paper presents the results of a case-study using a local industry sponsored research projectat an undergraduate based polytechnic university to support capstone design experientiallearning. The case study from HILTI Machine Tools demonstrates how engineeringcompanies can realize cost effective research and development by mentoring and sponsoringan engineering

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Bhaskar R. Sinha; Pradip P. Dey; Gordon W. Romney; Mohammad N. Amin; Debra A. Bowen

78 Best Practices Guidelines for Successful Capstone Projects in Accelerated Technology Programs Bhaskar R. Sinha, Pradip P. Dey, Gordon W. Romney, Mohammad N. Amin, Debra A. Bowen School of Engineering and Computing National University, San Diego, CAAbstractA practicum or capstone project is an effective and useful end-of-program academic exercise thatreinforces the ability of students to implement knowledge and skills they have learned in theprogram. Every academic program structures its capstone

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Taufik Taufik; Dale Dolan

550 Work-In-Progress: Enhancing Students’ Learning in Advanced Power Electronic Course Using a USB Solar Charger Project Taufik, Dale Dolan California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CAAbstractIn order to improve students’ design and hands on skills in power electronics at Cal Poly San LuisObispo, a new hardware project has recently been added in the advanced power electronic course.The new project requires students to design and construct a USB solar charger as their finalhardware project in the laboratory

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Mehdi Khazaeli; Camilla Saviz

248 Service Learning in Engineering Management Mehdi Khazaeli, Camilla Saviz University of the Pacific, Stockton, CAAbstractIt’s not often that college students are able to put their coursework to use in a philanthropic way,but for Engineering Management students, that opportunity was made possible in the form of a 5Krun. The purpose of the project was to allow students an opportunity to learn decision making andproject planning while at the same time gaining exposure to the benefits of community service.Through this project, students engaged in scheduling

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Michael Kinsler; Colin McGill; Giovanni Rodriguez; William Berrios; Jeremy Chow; Amelito Enriquez; Paul Grams; Xiaorong Zhang; Hamid Mahmoodi; Wenshen Pong; Kwok-Siong Teh

traditional classroom and exposing themearly on to research training or hands on project have been proven to be an effective means toprepare them to be engaged learners and sophisticated engineers. Faced with increasingly complexengineering problems that are inextricably intertwined across engineering disciplines, anengineer’s traditional comfort zone of ‘individual discipline’ no longer exists. In present day’scontext, an engineer needs to possess cross-disciplinary skills in order to effectively tacklecomplex engineering problems that are multidisciplinary in nature. For institutes of higherlearning, this makes the task of creating meaningful and educationally relevant cross-disciplinarystudent research projects all the more challenging yet highly

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Hasmik Gharibyan

mainly on student performance in tests, while setting a minimum composite score for non-test components of coursework (homework, lab, and project assignments, etc.) as a requirementfor passing the class.PrefaceThe author of this paper has been teaching Computer Science for over three decades: first fifteenyears in the USSR and remaining years in the United States. During her lengthy academic careershe attended many major conferences in CS education, interacted and collaborated with manycolleagues internationally, and published several papers related to the teaching of ComputerScience. Observations and statements made in this paper are a result of discussions with aboutseventy five individuals teaching introductory Computer Science Courses in

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Elaine Gilbert

344 RFI DISCUSSION FORUM Elaine Gilbert1,21Former Graduate Student, Department of Civil, and Environmental Engineering, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA/ 2Civil Engineer, Fuscoe Engineering, San Diego, CAAbstractThe construction process involves many different professionals that are in charge of makingimportant project decisions in their own area of expertise. In many projects there will beunforeseen circumstances that arise that will require the contractor to request additionalinformation from the professional

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Norman Ettedgui; Joe Cooney; Brian LaBar; Ernest Frimpong; Gilbert Szeto; Amelito G. Enriquez; Kwok-Siong Teh; Cheng Chen; Hamid Mahmoodi; Wenshen Pong; Hamid Shanasser; Xiaorong Zhang

improve undergraduate STEM education and increase the recruitment and retention of STEMstudents, engaging community college students in cutting-edge STEM research is a significantstrategy for inspiring students’ interest in STEM and enabling them to discover their capacity touse STEM to make a difference in the world. With support from the NASA CIPAIR (CurriculumImprovements and Partnership Award for the Integration of Research) program, in summer 2014,four sophomore engineering students from Cañada College, a Hispanic-Serving community college inCalifornia’s Silicon Valley participated in a ten-week summer research internship project in aresearch lab on intelligent cyber-physical systems (CPS) at San Francisco State University, apublic

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M. Zoghi; L. Crask; B. Hyatt; V. Luo; W. Wu

that will have great potential to improvemankind’s quality of life. The overarching thematic areas include energy and environment,health, security, and learning and computation. The GCSP has five components: (1)interdisciplinary curriculum, (2) hands-on projects or research experience, (3) entrepreneurship,(4) service learning, and (5) global perspective. The aforementioned roadmap will not onlyenhance students’ skills and knowledge needed to solve complex societal problems, but willprovide realistic and exciting opportunities for students to get engaged.There is an increasing number of engineering programs worldwide adopting the GCSP roadmapwithin their existing undergraduate and/or graduate education. The details of a proposed GCSPin the

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Thais da C. L. Alves

89 Student Chapter Development and Engagement in Engineering Majors: The NECA Student Chapter Case Thais da C. L. Alves San Diego State University, CAAbstractStudent chapters provide an opportunity for students to develop additional knowledge and skillsto those acquired during their college life as well to work in multidisciplinary teams and participatein projects and competitions outside of their school’s setting. Large professional and tradeorganizations have encouraged the creation of student chapters to promote their profession

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Amelito Enriquez; Nicholas Langhoff; Wenshen Pong; Nilgun Ozer; Hamid Shanasser; Cheng Chen; Hamid Mahmoodi; Ed Cheng; Kwok-Siong Teh; Xiaorong Zhang

College was awarded a Minority Science and Engineering ImprovementProgram (MSEIP) grant by the US Department of Education to develop a project that aims tomaximize the likelihood of success among underrepresented and educationally disadvantaged Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 383students interested in pursuing careers in STEM fields by incorporating strategies that addresschallenges and barriers to recruitment, retention and success of these students. Among thestrategies developed for this

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Rose-Margaret Itua; Sharnnia Artis

groups (African American, Hispanic,Pacific Islanders and Native Indians) are scarce in Engineering Classrooms. These demographicgroups also have rather high attrition rates on Engineering Courses. At Ohlone College, wefound that Engineering for Humanitarian/Social Change classroom projects increased retention,commitment and academic success amongst female and ethnically underrepresented students.Our pedagogy is based on Context-Based Learning (CBL) Service Based Learning (SBL).Therefore, we discuss data collected over four semesters that suggests that the integration ofContext-based learning (CBL) and Service based Learning(SBL) through Engineering forHumanitarian and Social Change projects, could indeed increase the number of female

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Jing Pang

in the projects assignedwhich were designed according to the course learning outcomes. They were evaluated afterstudent designs were collected and positive results were identified in this work.1. IntroductionCritical thinking requires the ability to analyze and evaluate information4, 5, 6. A lot of researchershave recognized the importance of critical thinking in education. How to organize active learningenvironment to enhance critical thinking among students has been one challenging and alsopassionate topic for many educators. In the field of health science, case studies were used topromote critical thinking. Life experience case examples or simulated real patient situation caseswere used by nurse educators to help students acquire critical

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Lavanya Kumari

waterfallmodel, design is done only once. This method cannot practically lead to an accurate design forcomplex systems, that too in current fluid market with demanding users and cut-throatcompetition. Most software projects using this methodology fail to meet their objectives. Inincremental models, the whole cycle of software activities is repeated in increments, which againbecomes restrictive. But in the iterative model, the design itself goes through several iterationsuntil it has reached a point of accuracy which satisfies the designers, reviewers, practitioners, andstakeholders. Incremental design is about adding new elements, which one can choose to doiteratively, while iterating is about reworking and refining16. In this paper, we start by

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Martin Koch

freshman level course with no prerequisites. Itis a three-hour, one unit course that meets for 10 weeks and is taught in a lecture/activity format.The mission of the course is to teach engineering students about the wide array of processes thatcomprise the metal casting industry. This is done through a combination of traditional lecture,interactive computer tutorials/ case studies, traditional foundry lab experiences and the use ofCAD/CAM systems to produce CNC milled patterns and AM produced patterns and molds.Our engineering programs are hands-on. We firmly believe that the educational experiences aregreatly enhanced by projects and the making of things. In the evolution of the course it becameapparent that the need for careful planning to avoid

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Bryan K. Allen; Gordon W. Romney

1 Agile Capstone Integration of Free, Disparate Cloud Services Produced a Prototype Application that Tracks Airborne Wildfire Firefighting Resources Bryan K. Allen and Gordon W. Romney School of Engineering and Computing National University, San Diego, CAAbstractA prototype application designed to leverage state-of-the art cloud computing technologies wasdeveloped as a capstone project for U.S. Defense Support to a Civilian Authority mission. Theoutcome of this paper demonstrates the Agile development and

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their own teaching teams. Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 133ContextERAU/Prescott is a 4-year university located in Northern Arizona with an enrollment ofapproximately 2000 undergraduate students. The two most popular engineering degree programsare Aerospace Engineering (AE) and Mechanical Engineering (ME). Within the AE/MEcurriculum, there is a strong emphasis on hands-on application and conceptual design projects toprepare students for senior capstone design courses.Students majoring in AE

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Tania Martinez; Amado Flores-Renteria; Jasmine Flores; Jolani Chun; Cheng Chen; Hezareigh Ryan; Wenshen Pong; Nilgun Ozer; Hamid Shahnasser; Hamid Mahmoodi; Amelito G. Enriquez; Albert Cheng; Kwok-Siong Teh; Xiaorong Zhang

-time hybrid simulation forearthquake engineering research. The purpose of the project is to evaluate the effects of delay onreal-time hybrid simulation and to apply a probabilistic approach for reliability assessment.MATLAB and Simulink are used and probabilistic concepts are applied to account forcharacteristics of one hundred ground motions. This research internship program allows for thedevelopment of project management, time management and teamwork skills, thus helpingstrengthen students’ knowledge of seismic design in civil engineering and prepare them forsuccessful academic and professional careers. The internship program therefore provides valuablementorship for community college students during their transition to a four-year college

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Monica Palomo P.E.

classes and with other non-engineering communities at on-campus events thatpromoted environmental sustainability and awareness of California water challenges.IntroductionWater has been cited as the most valuable resource of California 6. Agriculture is a majorindustry that consumes from 52% to 70% of the total water demand in the Southwestern regionof California1. Southern California’s agriculture depends on water availability to produce foodproducts for the country. While approximately two-thirds of the residents of California live inthe Southern California area, only one-third of the water consumed comes from local sources.The remaining water demand is met by water imported from the Colorado River, the OwensValley, and the State Water Project

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Estelle M. Eke

introduced by writing a short program and viewing the theoreticalresults, followed by programming the LEGO Mindstorms NXT (NXT) to illustrate the concept.Projects are assigned throughout the semester. The final project is open-ended, allowing studentsto demonstrate their mastery of the concepts based on their level of competency. This approachhighly motivates the students as they try to outperform their peers, often resulting in outstandingdesigns. Each team is evaluated by the rest of the class which allows the instructor to includestudent feedback in the final assessment. Furthermore the instructor serves as a mentorthroughout the semester. In some situations a misunderstanding in programming logic may notbe obvious to the student until the code

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Bridget Benson; John Oliver

six hours per week, rather than having separate lectureand lab sections. The ‘studio format’ allows the instructor to spend as little or as much timelecturing about new topics and spend the remaining class time assisting students with theircourse projects. The course consists of four course projects that cover all the required learningobjectives of the course.In Spring quarter, 2014, we decided to implement a mastery learning scheme for 50% of ourCPE 329 course grade. We divided up the course into two instructional units and provided a Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific South West Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education

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Thomas M. Korman

students to evaluatesubcontractor bids and select the responsible low bid in each category, and for the group tocalculate a final competitive bid price within the allotted time frame. These instructionalobjectives allow the student to understand and appreciate the complexity faced by a contractor inassembling a successful competitive bid. The Mock Bid exercise is designed to provide studentswith a realistic experience of bid day conditions using a real project that they are likely to workon upon graduation.BackgroundBeginning in the autumn quarter of 2008, the Construction Management Department atCalifornia Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly) launched an integratedproject based construction management curriculum. The basis

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aseducators prepare the next generation of engineers.There were over 90 submissions which resulted in many excellent papers and posters. As you readthese proceedings, you will see a roadmap marked by breadth, depth and innovation that will beused to navigate engineering education. Educators constantly hear that our students are changing.These proceedings demonstrate that our educators are more than prepared for this change.This conference included educators, researchers and practitioners from industry, academia andgovernment. We were fortunate to have several keynote speakers including: Dr. Don Czechowicz,Project Leader at General Atomics, San Diego, CA; Dr. Muzibul Khan, Corporate Planner,Kyocera Communications, Inc. San Diego, CA; Dr. Justin

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David F. Hosterman; Wblesther Gama; Andrew Vitaljic; Jonathan H. Poluan; Ali A. Ballout; Yong X Gan; James L. Smith; Jimmie C. Oxley

. In thispaper, we will present how to improve undergraduate student education through high impactactivities in a cooperative learning setting. Specifically, scalable, low cost manufacturing processfor making high performance energy conversion nanomaterials is dealt with. Cooperativelearning on several upper division general engineering courses including Independent Researchand Studies, Senior Capstone Design, Special Topics on Nanotechnology is investigated. Severalscalable, low cost manufacturing research tasks are adopted to enhance the context learningthrough cooperative learning approach that integrates advanced manufacturing research activitiesinto both academic and social learning experiences. Team-based research projects areimplemented

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Zekeriya Aliyazicioglu; Rajan Chandra

andhomework and lab exercises. It has the ability to contain links to video lectures in the YouTube.These lectures are also five to ten minutes long and is given by programming professionals. Theyare free and can be accessed from anywhere as they are public domain.During lab sessions students have to work on practical problem for around three hours (some ofwhich as a group), of which are supervised by graduated students. Student are also encouraged towork on a final group project of which the size is limited to two or three students. The studentsmay choose instructor defined projects or may work on their own project which are approved bythe lab instructor. Students are required to present the project in the final week of the quarter(before finals) to

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Rita Melgar; Anthony Nash; Mou Sun; Carmen Tepeu Yoc; Maral Amir; Cheng Chen; Amelito G. Enriquez; Hao Jiang; Hamid Mahmoodi; Wenshen Pong; Hamid Shanasser; Kwok-Siong Teh; Xiaorong Zhang

undergraduate students in a team perform the task of designing a braininspired neural network for edge detection and test their design using a real live camera feed totheir system and producing a live video display showing the detected edges. The design involvesmodeling and implementation of simple and complex neural cells for edge detection along fourorientations of 0, 45, 90, and 135 degrees. The simple cells are modeled by Gabor filters andcomplex cells by a max pooling approach. The models are implemented in Matlab environmentand a webcam is used to obtain a live visual input for testing. The internship is planned over 10weeks and the intern students are assigned a graduate student mentor. This paper presents thedetails of the project, research and

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Norali Pernalete; Shima Hajimirza

departments at ABET creditedundergraduate universities. The Integrated Teaching and Learning Lab at the College ofEngineering and Applied Science in the University of Colorado at Boulder is probably a pioneerin formally practicing the method and publishing scientific educational reports on the results1-4.Other examples of the established programs over the past two decades are the InformationEngineering Technology (IET) program at the Northern New Mexico College, the University ofTexas at Austin Project Centered Education (PROCEED), and reflection-in-action softwareengineering courses at the College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology4. ThePROCEED program of UT Austin for instance was initially started in the department of Proceedings

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Alireza Farahani; Lu Zhang

Figure 13(a) - Riemann sum Figure 13(b) - Riemann sum valuesThe exact value of the integrals can be obtained by the query integral of f(x) = x^2 on [0, 5]. 4. Wolfram Demonstrations projects and Problem GeneratorWolfram site has a large number of publicly available demonstration projects on variety oftopics in math and science. In these projectsthe essential parameters in the problems can bechanged while the system recalculates andupdates the graph. This clearly help studentssee the impact of individual parameter changeson the solution. Figure 14 shows a snapshot ofthe project2. The project allow students tochange the degree of a polynomial, pick thevalue of zeros from a preset range and observethe graph of the polynomial

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platforms.Learning platforms allow the student’s work to be organized, and for digital resources to bereadily available, which can be submitted and reviewed. But also, students can communicatewith teachers and tutors.In France, except in experimental cases in a few penitentiaries, prisons are not connected tothe Internet. Therefore, educational and technical solutions for this particular setting must beprovided by instructors in higher education as well as instructional designers. The researchpresented in this paper is ongoing and it focuses on the project entitled, IDEFI (Initiativesd’Excellence pour l’enseignement et la formation innovantes) i, at the University of Paul-Valéry Montpellier.The objective of this project is to increase the success rate of

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utilized in aerodynamics, aircraft performance, and static aircraftstability to analyze the performance characteristics of a student-selected, existing aircraft. Thecourse lectures contain references from many authors/texts for researching and understandingvarious techniques to analyze aircraft characteristics. Students apply the various techniques ingroups of three in the five assigned projects. The projects also enhance communication skills byrequiring five written reports and a final presentation. An outstanding motivational aspect of thecourse is the students compare results to published results of existing aircraft. In the secondcourse (Aircraft Preliminary Design), student groups of 6 to 9 (Integrated Product Teams, IPTs)are given only